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Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Seamus Heaney has been elected Oxford University's professor of poetry, one of the highest honors that can be paid to an English language poet or poetry critic...
...Oxford University poet--a position held in the past by such luminaries as C.S. Lewis and W.H. Auden--Heaney will give three lectures a year, judge several undergraduate poetry competitions and deliver two orations at Oxford's degree-granting ceremonies, said Ann Lansdale, Oxford's communications director...
...that poets themselves have ever avoided politics as subject matter. Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, all found ways to hail or rage against kings and governments through their work. Yeats, unpolitical as anyone could look in his fluffy neckties, wrote stinging political lines. As did Robert Lowell. As does Seamus Heaney. W.H. Auden's September 1, 1939 is a beautiful muddle of a poem on Europe in the shadow of war. Bertolt Brecht's To Posterity, about Germany under the Nazis, is clear as a bell...
Poet Seamus Heaney, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, recited a poem and discussed different means of judging literature, including politically and aesthetically...
...Some of my fiercest critics are writers who judge my work and say, 'Oh, there's nothing there,'" Heaney said...